Travel Guides

Adolpho Ducke Botanical Garden

This vast forest reserve, covering more than 39 square miles
(100 sq km) to the east of Manaus, provides tourists with the
opportunity to discover what lies beneath the dense Amazon
rainforest canopy. The park building complex hosts plant nurseries
and an exhibition of the woods of Amazonas, as well as a library
and an eatery. A network of trails has been created in the forest,
and local youths are trained and employed as guides to direct
visitors along the paths (although not all of them speak English).
It can be difficult to get into the Amazon for a genuine experience
of the rainforest and this vast botanical garden is as close as
many visitors will get to the unspoilt forest world.